Paintball rules and game types.

The paintball rules are the most important thing, and the reason for this is because if you follow them you won’t get hurt.
When a paintball comes out of the barrel it useually comes with a velocity of about 300 Km/h wich is a lot, but also drops very fast, therefore making it safe, but hurting just a litlle bit when you are hit, a pain like someone pinching you in the harm, and believe me, with all the adrenaline that pain will be unnoticed fast.

So, first rule and the most important has I already said in the last post… THE MASK… you don’t want a paintball hitting your eyes because that will get you blind, and also if it hits the face it will hurt a lot. Most newcomers say “no problem I’ll use protection glasses that I use in chemistry”… don’t, the paintball will make them fly away and it’s the same as using nothing, therefore use a mask, you have no excuses to say no.
Another important rule is that you don’t shoot your friends (or anyone) if you are at less than 5 meters from him, how can you do this? Simple, just tell him a loud “surrender” or “you are dead piss off”, just let him know in any way you want that you are behind and that if he turns around to fire he will get hit easily, usually this is told in every briefing before any game you play.
Now a common sense rule, be careful with the terrain, most injuries that don’t come from removing the mask come from falls, putting your foot in a hole and snap a bone, running like crazy and eating dirt… if you see well, hats the injuries you also see in sports like football, or even walking on the street (amazing sport this last one), so no need to be afraid paintball has a injury rating of 4 injuries per 10.000 players, and that’s less than golf.

Still to improve the security there is the soo called barrel plug to prevent you from shooting accidentally, because event though a marker has a safety there are still chances (minimal) that it fails in the needed moment, there for a barrel plug (not a squeegies or barrel cleaner) is also one of the best ways to prevent accidents.


Now about the games, you can play airball or woodsball (there are others like big games, but we will cover them in the next time).
Airball is the most common competition case and it is played in a inflatable obstacles field that is most usually symmetric for both teams. In this kind of field the game consists of just catching the flag that is in the middle and taking it to the base or eliminating the opposing team, it’s a faster game and usually a more expensive one, because even though you can play with rented kits if you want to play with your material you will need the real stuff, marker kits that cost at least 400$ being this uncommon and also you will waste lots of paintballs.
Woodsball has the name says its wood/urban side of paintball, usually played in asymmetric fields like a forest or a abandoned factory whose owner allows paintball games inside, it is the best place to start because it is usually cheaper and easier to play with more experience players from who you are going to learn a lot (remember, in this game you will never know everything) and hopefully they will also learn some things, because every player differs from each other. Honestly talking this is the kind of paintball I play, I don’t have much experience in the airball side.
In woodsball you can play lots of games, like “capture the flag” (same as in airball), “kill the president” (where you must hit the opposing team president to win the game), “to the other side” (in this one you need to infiltrate the opposing team base), and many others, you just need imagination and make new games with new winning rules.

Now it’s up to you, talk to friends, choose what games you want to play and remember FOLLOW THE SAFETY RULES!